Psalms 54:18
Evening and morning, and at noon I will speak and declare: and he shall hear my voice.
Open Psalms 54:18 in the Motif Searcher, word by word across all five texts →Show on the spiral →The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Vespere, et mane, et meridie, narrabo, et annuntiabo ; et exaudiet vocem meam.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἑσπέρας καὶ πρωὶ καὶ μεσημβρίας διηγήσομαι· ἀπαγγελῶ, καὶ εἰσακούσεται τῆς φωνῆς μου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 55:18
- עֶ֤רֶב וָבֹ֣קֶר וְ֭צָהֳרַיִם אָשִׂ֣יחָה וְאֶהֱמֶ֑ה וַיִּשְׁמַ֥ע קוֹלִֽי
Haydock's commentary
Evening. The Hebrew then began the day. (Calmet) (Genesis i. 5.) (Haydock)
They had three times allotted for prayer, (Daniel vi. 10.) as the Church had afterwards. (Const. Ap.[Apostolic Constitutions?] vii. 25.) (Calmet)
Evening song, matins, and the sacrifice of the mass, are the principal times for divine service. (Worthington)
David comprises all times, because his prayer was continual. (Berthier) (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Gregory Nazianzen The First Theological Oration. A Preliminary Discourse Against the Eunomians
V. Now, I am not saying that it is not needful to remember God at all times;…I must not be misunderstood, or I shall be having these nimble and quick people down upon me again. For we ought to think of God even more often than we draw our breath; and if the expression is permissible, we ought to do nothing else. Yea, I am one of those who entirely approve that Word which bids us meditate day and night, and tell at eventide and morning and noon day, and praise the Lord at every time; or, to use Moses’ words, whether a man lie down, or rise up, or walk by the way, or whatever else he be doing, and by this recollection we are to be moulded to purity. So that it is not the continual remembrance of God that I would hinder, but only the talking about God; nor even that as in itself wrong, but only when unseasonable; nor all teaching, but only want of moderation. …